The article as posted in the New Republic was written by Fletcher Pratt to the average working American. The intended audience would infer that the writer would like to show the public how bad the war really was, and maybe make an attempt at starting a protest against the war. The contents of this article speaks mainly of the ammounts of deaths that are required to stop the war, which accroding to the author is around 3,6000,000 deaths. While this author disagrees with Kyle Palmer of the L.A. Times on the number of deaths, they do both agree that there will be substatial deaths on both sides. This article contributes to our understanding of the atomic bomb by showing the amount of damage that we needed to end the wawr, and showing how much damage we wanted the bombs to do.
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